Nikhil Marriwala

Dr. Nikhil Kumar Marriwala (B-Tech., M-Tech. and PhD in Engineering & Technology) is working as Assistant Professor and Head of the Department Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He did his PhD. from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He did his post-graduation (M-Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) University and did his B-Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation from MMEC, Mullana, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He has more than 21 years of experience teaching graduate and postgraduate students. More than 33 students have completed their M-Tech dissertation under his guidance. He has published more than 05 book chapters in different International books, has authored more than 10 books with Pearson, Wiley, etc. and has more than 35 publications to his credit in reputed International Journals (SCI, SCIE, ESCI, and Scopus) and 30 papers in International/National conferences. He has been granted 08 Patents with 02 Indian patents and 06 International Patents. He has been Chairman of Special Sessions at more than 22 International/National Conferences and has delivered a keynote address at more than 09 International conferences. He has also acted as organizing secretary for more than 07 International conferences and 01 National Conference. He has delivered more than 70 Invited Talks/ Guest Lectures in leading Universities/Colleges PAN India. He is having additional charge of Training and Placement Officer, UIET, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra for more than 11 years now. He is the Single point of contact (SPOC) and head of the local chapter of SWAYAM NPTEL Local Chapter of UIET, KUK. He is the SPOC for the Infosys campus connect program for UIET, KUK. He is the editor of more than 05 book proceedings with Springer and guest editor for the special session in Journal Measurement and Sensors, Elsevier. He is also the reviewer for many reputed journals such as the International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, International Journal of Measurement Technologies and Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC), Egyptian Informatics Journal – Elsevier, Instrumentation Engineering (IJMTIE), International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies (IJICST), Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology, UK. He has been awarded as the NPTEL ENTHUSIASTS for the year 2019-2020 by NPTEL IIT, Madras. He has also been awarded the “Career Guru of the Month” award by Aspiring Minds. He has also been awarded as Active SPOC and NPTEL’s brand ambassador from 2019-2022. His areas of interest include Wireless Communications, Software Defined Radios, Cognitive Radios, Soft Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Fuzzy system design, Advanced Microprocessors, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, and Blockchain.

Publications

Performance Analysis of Multiple FEC Channel Coding Algorithms for Software Defined Radio Using Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
Nikhil Marriwala, O. P. Sahu, Anil Vohra. © 2016. 15 pages.
This paper describes the development of a Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based Transceiver simulation model using Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) Scheme and analyze its...